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M-W's word of the year
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:10 am
by earendel
Mirriam-Webster ran an online poll to select the "word of the year". Last year's winner was "truthiness". This year the winner was...
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w00t. It's a word that is used in MMORPGs to refer to an achievement, usually after defeating a major monster or finding a significant treasure.
Re: M-W's word of the year
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:11 am
by christie1111
earendel wrote:Mirriam-Webster ran an online poll to select the "word of the year". Last year's winner was "truthiness". This year the winner was...
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w00t. It's a word that is used in MMORPGs to refer to an achievement, usually after defeating a major monster or finding a significant treasure.
I don't think that was a great choice.
JMHO
Re: M-W's word of the year
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:13 am
by minimetoo26
christie1111 wrote:earendel wrote:Mirriam-Webster ran an online poll to select the "word of the year". Last year's winner was "truthiness". This year the winner was...
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w00t. It's a word that is used in MMORPGs to refer to an achievement, usually after defeating a major monster or finding a significant treasure.
I don't think that was a great choice.
JMHO
WTF is a MMORPG, anyway?
Re: M-W's word of the year
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:13 am
by earendel
christie1111 wrote:earendel wrote:Mirriam-Webster ran an online poll to select the "word of the year". Last year's winner was "truthiness". This year the winner was...
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w00t. It's a word that is used in MMORPGs to refer to an achievement, usually after defeating a major monster or finding a significant treasure.
I don't think that was a great choice.
JMHO
Well, an online poll is more likely to attract people who spend time online, and who more than MMORPGers? Not to say that it's a good choice, but it's not a surprising one. The runners-up included "facebook" (as a verb), "nuanced", "quixotic" and "blamestorm".
Re: M-W's word of the year
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:14 am
by earendel
minimetoo26 wrote:WTF is a MMORPG, anyway?
Massively
Multiplayer
Online
Role
Playing
Game
Like Everquest, World of Warcraft, etc.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:15 am
by peacock2121
That is just plain stoopid.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:15 am
by earendel
peacock2121 wrote:That is just plain stoopid.
Don't you mean "st00pid"?
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:15 am
by MarleysGh0st
From the Jargon File:
w00t
An interjection similar to “Yay!”, as in: “w00t!!! I just got a raise!” Often used for small victories the speaker dies not expect to be of special interest to anyone else. Some claim this is a bastardization of “root”, the highest level of access to a system (particularly UNIX), originated by script kiddies as a 133tspeak equivalent of “root”, and said as an exclamation upon gaining root access. Others claim it originated in the Everquest multiplayer game as an abbreviation of “wonderful loot”. Still other claim it on originated on IRC as the “Ewok victory cheer”] Adj. w00table has the sense of “cool” or “nifty”. This is one of the few leet-speak coinages to have crossed over into non-ironic use among hackers.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/W/w00t.html
Re: M-W's word of the year
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:18 am
by minimetoo26
earendel wrote:minimetoo26 wrote:WTF is a MMORPG, anyway?
Massively
Multiplayer
Online
Role
Playing
Game
Like Everquest, World of Warcraft, etc.
I figured out the RPG part and knew I wasn't going to get it...
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:19 am
by peacock2121
earendel wrote:peacock2121 wrote:That is just plain stoopid.
Don't you mean "st00pid"?
Now, that was funny!
W00t! There It is!
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:19 am
by CharlesFoxSingers
Party people
Yeah Tag Team music comin' straight atacha
That's me DC the Brain Supreme
And my man Steve Roll'n
We're kicking the flow we're kickin'
And it goes a little somethin' like this
Tag Team back again check it top
Wreck it - let's begin
Party people let me hear some noise
DC's in the house jump jump and rejoice
There's a party over here
a party over there
Wave your hands in the air
Shake the deriere
These three words mean you're gettin' busy
Whoomp there it is
whoomp there it is
Upside down and inside out
I'm about to show all you folks
What's it's all about
Now it's time to get on the mic
And make this party hype
I'm talking it back to the old school
'Cause I'm an old fool who's so cool
If you want to get down
I'm gonna show you the way whoomp there it is
Let me hear you say
whoomp there it is
Whoomp chak a laka chack a laka chak a laka chak a
Point blank gin and juice I drank
Gettin' bent and bent and as I puff on a dankt
Rock the mic
uh
oh I see rave skin
Rip skit find a honeydip to dip it in
Slam dunk it stick it flip it and ride
That is double O D D Y oh my
Ooh that it come on come on
Whoomp there it is I'm done
üHey
some say I'm crazy
'Cause I'm pushin' up daises
The underground sound that you have found
Amazing outstanding demanding
Commanding you people dancin'
That's a breath taker
I produce AKA the undertaker
You want to come down to the underground
Old school - here's a shovel can dig it fol
Can you dig it
we can dig it
Can y'll dig it
we can dig it
Why double omp as I flow
To the fly from the school of old
Hardcore kick the folk lore wreck
Three to the two and one mic-check
Mad skill flow ill on the mesh of steel
That's the grill of the microphone I just killed
Party people it's your party Tag Team is through
Whoomp there it is I thought you knew
Whoomp there it is
Yeha Tag Team comin' straight atcha
That's me DC the brain supreme
And my man Steve Roll'n
Bring it back ya'll bring it back ya'll bring it back
Here we go
Whoomp there it is
Re: M-W's word of the year
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:24 am
by earendel
minimetoo26 wrote:earendel wrote:minimetoo26 wrote:WTF is a MMORPG, anyway?
Massively
Multiplayer
Online
Role
Playing
Game
Like Everquest, World of Warcraft, etc.
I figured out the RPG part and knew I wasn't going to get it...
I have four sons and all of them are into World of Warcraft, so I have heard more than I would care to know about the subject.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:25 am
by AnnieCamaro
Will I be a trendier brownhound if I start saying "w00f"?
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:26 am
by earendel
AnnieCamaro wrote:Will I be a trendier brownhound if I start saying "w00f"?
You'd be right up there with the other l33t speakers, Annie.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:30 am
by gsabc
I guess I'm officially old. I'm usually up on this stuff, but I had never heard of this "word" before the announcement. And I don't really care to hear about it again. It looks like bu11sh1t to me.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:31 am
by mrkelley23
Our local paper ran the wire service story on this, and they used the movie Pretty Woman as an example, claiming that Julia Roberts was saying "W00t, W00t" when she was cheering at the track (or wherever she was).
How quickly they forget. Arsenio should sue the AP.
Re: M-W's word of the year
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:32 am
by PlacentiaSoccerMom
earendel wrote:Mirriam-Webster ran an online poll to select the "word of the year". Last year's winner was "truthiness". This year the winner was...
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w00t. It's a word that is used in MMORPGs to refer to an achievement, usually after defeating a major monster or finding a significant treasure.
Yeah, we use this word every day at our house.
Re: M-W's word of the year
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:53 am
by ladysoleil
earendel wrote:Mirriam-Webster ran an online poll to select the "word of the year". Last year's winner was "truthiness". This year the winner was...
w00t. It's a word that is used in MMORPGs to refer to an achievement, usually after defeating a major monster or finding a significant treasure.
Blargh. That's not a word. Okay, it's a word, but not really.
Does anyone actually *say* w00t? I use it in IRC/IM and gaming, but I don't think I've ever actually spoken the word out loud.
Oy. That word is fail.
Re: M-W's word of the year
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:54 am
by littlebeast13
ladysoleil wrote:earendel wrote:Mirriam-Webster ran an online poll to select the "word of the year". Last year's winner was "truthiness". This year the winner was...
w00t. It's a word that is used in MMORPGs to refer to an achievement, usually after defeating a major monster or finding a significant treasure.
Blargh. That's not a word. Okay, it's a word, but not really.
Does anyone actually *say* w00t? I use it in IRC/IM and gaming, but I don't think I've ever actually spoken the word out loud.
Oy. That word is fail.
LOL!
Or is that L0L....?
lb13
Re: M-W's word of the year
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:55 am
by earendel
ladysoleil wrote:earendel wrote:Mirriam-Webster ran an online poll to select the "word of the year". Last year's winner was "truthiness". This year the winner was...
w00t. It's a word that is used in MMORPGs to refer to an achievement, usually after defeating a major monster or finding a significant treasure.
Blargh. That's not a word. Okay, it's a word, but not really.
Does anyone actually *say* w00t? I use it in IRC/IM and gaming, but I don't think I've ever actually spoken the word out loud.
Oy. That word is fail.
Congrats on the gus, ladysoleil - and my sons do use it in conversations.
Re: M-W's word of the year
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:15 am
by ladysoleil
earendel wrote:
Congrats on the gus, ladysoleil - and my sons do use it in conversations.
Heh. Okay, as long as someone's saying it. We (meaning my usual group of internet crazies) tend not to take l33t and chatspeak into spoken English, mostly because we're old and cranky.
Re: M-W's word of the year
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:20 am
by ToLiveIsToFly
ladysoleil wrote:earendel wrote:Does anyone actually *say* w00t? I use it in IRC/IM and gaming, but I don't think I've ever actually spoken the word out loud.
Only when I tell my wife I'm buying crap from woot.com
Re: M-W's word of the year
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:23 am
by earendel
ToLiveIsToFly wrote:ladysoleil wrote:earendel wrote:Does anyone actually *say* w00t? I use it in IRC/IM and gaming, but I don't think I've ever actually spoken the word out loud.
Only when I tell my wife I'm buying crap from woot.com
There's a woot.com? I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
Re: M-W's word of the year
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:27 am
by ladysoleil
ToLiveIsToFly wrote:
Only when I tell my wife I'm buying crap from woot.com
woot.com is evil. I know I do not need the Blinged Out Cabbage, but I want it!
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:48 am
by ulysses5019
Did I get the gu5?